Russia's Pacific coast receives warning powerful cyclone coming up

VLADIVOSTOK. December 30. KAZINFORM An emergency warning about the passage of a powerful cyclone has been issued to all the territories and population centers along Russia's Pacific Coast, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
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Gale, heavy snowfall, blizzards and a sharp fall of air temperatures are expected in the Primorsky /Maritime/ and Khabarovsk territories, on the island of Sakhalin, and on the Kurile Islands archipelago that separates the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean.

The press service of the Far Eastern territorial center of the federal Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense /EMERCOM/ warned that the cyclone is expected to produce snow banks and ice condition on automobile roads in the Primorsky territory, as well as cleavage of snow to wires at power transmission lines.

On the face of it, air temperatures in the southern parts of the territory will sink to anomalously low readings - about 7 degrees Celsius below the usual climatic norm for this period of the year. This will be the product of a Siberian anticyclone that continues gaining strength.

This kind of weather will reign in the Primorsky territory through to January 5, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.

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